by Bob Allen | Oct 3, 2007 | News
The Southern Baptist Convention spoke with a unified voice in support of the war in Iraq but failed to persuade Americans outside the denomination to join them in supporting an increasingly unpopular war, according to an article analyzing public statements by...
by Bob Allen | Oct 2, 2007 | News
Christians in Myanmar, including Baptists, planned prayer services for their country, while an American Baptist leader urged Christians everywhere to follow events and pray for peaceful resolution of a bloody government crackdown of pro-democracy demonstrations now in...
by Bob Allen | Oct 2, 2007 | News
An ethics professor says all Christians in the United States are “guest workers” with an allegiance to God that supersedes national or political loyalties. Melissa Snarr, assistant professor of ethics and society at Vanderbilt University Divinity School,...
by Bob Allen | Oct 1, 2007 | News
GOP presidential hopeful Sen. John McCain said in a Web interview last week that he misspoke when he said recently he is “an active member” of a Southern Baptist church in Arizona and has been for years. While campaigning in South Carolina, McCain...
by Bob Allen | Sep 24, 2007 | News
A newspaper interview about his next book turned political when best-selling author John Grisham termed the Bush administration “bad people with evil intent” and the war in Iraq an “immoral abomination.” Grisham’s 20th book, Playing for...
